Editor and Introducation by Daniela Koleva, Assoc. Prof. at the Sofia University, Department of Cultural Studies. Published by Institute for Studies of the Recent Past, Sofia, 2007. Bulgarian, 250 pages. Anthropological Interviews….
Public Presentation and Debate “Communism as a Life Story”
What do people from Bulgarian villages, small towns and cities think about their personal life during communist times? Can a personal life story give an answer about the country melancholy and alienation?…
“This is my past!” awards
During its final meeting on the 12 of June 2007 after exhaustive process of reviewing and long discussions about the received materials the Competition Committee, chaired by Prof. Ivaylo Znepolski and its…
“Missing Rooms”, Diana Ivanova on Capital Weekly
As a follow up from the “This is my past” Call Diana Ivanova (member of the Selection Committee) published her article “Missing Rooms” in the weekly newspaper “Capital”. You can read her…
Deadline for the Call for Memories
The deadline for the Competition This is my Past has expired. The Institute’s mailbox was piled with almost 140 memoirs, letters, life stories, etc., memories from the recent past. The Competition Committee…
The Institute calls for memories…
The Institute for Studies of the Recent Past initiates an open competition for authentic diaries, witnesses, memories about the communist times. What was your life about before 1989? If you keep your…